Method for making permeable conduits in subterranean lines of drainage



June 29, 1965 H. D. DURSTON ETAL 3,191,337

METHOD FOR MAKING PERMEABLE CONDUI'I'S IN SUBTERRANEAN LINES OE DRAINAGE Original Filed March 18, 1964 4 Sheets-Sheet l FIG. 2

H. D. DURSTON ETAL METHOD FOR MAKING PERMEABLE CONDUITS IN 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 June 29, 1965 SUB'IERRANEAN LINES OF DRAINAGE Original Filed March 18, 1964 u Him-I June 29, 1965 H D. DURSTON ETAL 3,191,387

METHOD FOE MAKING PERMEABLE CONDUITS IN SUB'I'ERRANEAN LINES 0F DRAINAGE Original Filed March 18, 1964 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 FIG. 8

June 29, 1965 H. D. DURSTON ETAL 3,191,387

METHOD FOR MAKING PERMEABLE' CONDUITS IN SUBTERRANEAN LINES OF DRAINAGE Original Filed March 18, 1964 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 FIG. 9

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United States Patent 3,191,387 IVETHOD FGR MAKING PERMEABLE CONDUITS IN SUETERRANEAN LINES 0F DRAINAGE Harry B. Durston, Pasco, and Alfred Perry, Moses Lake, Wash, assignors to J. A. Terteling & Sons, Inc., Boise, Idaho, a corporation of Idaho Original application Mar. 18, 1964, Ser. No. 352,866. Divided and this application .Aug. 4, 1964, Ser.

7 Claims. (CI. 61-11) This application is a division of our copending application Serial No. 352,866, filed March 18, 1964.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for making permeable conduits in subterranean lines of drainage, and, more particularly, to method and apparatus operable to separately backfill, form, and density, in a composite operation, a plurality of porous materials, each of a selected particle size, in excavated trenches to make filtered, free-flowing conduits for penetrating and percolating Water.

In the construction of such surface structures as roads, runways, channels, levees, canals, and the like, it is desirable to provide permeable free-flowing subterranean lines of drainage to collect and carry away transuding, percolating and penetrating water. Aluvium or detrita-l materials which may form an earth foundation for surface structures tend to become unstable by reason of physical changes induced by such water. Hydrostatic pressures also may be created by the collection of subsurface water where impervious Wearing surfaces such as blankets or linings of surface structures are to be supported.

In order to provide optimum stability, subterranean lines of drainage are preferably located beneath a surface structure. Thus, it is desirable to provide conduits of sufiicient strength to support the surface structure and the impact loads caused by its use. In this manner, bridging or reinforcing members in the surface structure over lines of drainage may be avoided. i

Conduits used for subterranean lines of drainage preferably comprise a surrounding cohesionless arenaceous or sandy-like filter materia about a colhesionless interstitial core material such as selectively sized gravel or the like. Thereby, contaminants such as silt and the like which may be carried by percolating ground water or by water penetrating the foundation surface are filtered 'by the arenaceous material which, having very small interstices, acts as a barrier to the surrounding foundation material while maintaining its permeable and porous characteristics. Thus, interstices in the core materials also remain permeable. Conduits of this type are prefer-red over fabricated conduits known in the .art such as those commonly called tile drains or the like, because the entire area of the present type conduit is permeable, and, therefore, better suited to collecting water. However, the methods and machines formerly known in the art are not capable of economical construction of such conduits.

To insure that any blanket or lining placed on a foundation is properly supported, the dissimilar conduit materials should each be compacted to sufficient density. It is preferred that each of the materials, when being compacted, shall not be mixed or contaminated with each other, since interstices in the core materials may thereby be filled and the conduit made less permeable.

The usual course of construction of surface structures of the type and character here inclosed, particularly those having an impervious rigid or semi-rigid blanket or lining (such as concrete, asphalt, and the like) involves the accurate fine grading or trimming of a firm, densified earth foundation to neatline dimensions, free of leases,

pockets, streaks or imperfections to insure that the surface structure is uniformly supported. Thus, the subgrade or foundation including subterranean lines of drainage, being contiguous with the other foundation portions and the surface structure, are generally included in the foundation preparation operations above described. Machines and equipment known in the art which perform fine grading or trimming operations normally attack the foundation in a milling-like manner transversely to the longitudinal direction of travel of the machine to obtain the smooth, planed foundation required. Trimming equipment of the character used in such operations is described in United States Letters Patent 2,867,046 issued to Josef Baer on January 6, 1959, and owned by the present assignee of the present application.

As earlier stated, the most effective use of subterranean lines of drainage is beneath the surface structure, and therefore, conduits are normally constructed parallel with the direction of travel or flow on the surface structure, and, thus, are longitudinal. Methods and equipment formerly known in the art used in connection with making permeable conduits, When operated after fine grading or trimming operations are completed, may so dis turb the prepared earth foundation that the foundation areas about conduits are seriously damaged or destroyed. Similarly, fine grading or trimming operation performed after a conduit is made may cause the conduit to become so contaminated with foundation materials that subsequent costly conduit repairing and cleaning operations need be performed. The present invention provides means which, when employed as an accessory or component of other equipment, will overcome such problems.

Each of the methods and machines formerly employed in making any of the several types and kinds of conduits for subterranean lines of drainage, have separately required at least (1) an excavating or trenching operation; ('2) an arenaceous filter backfilling operation; (3) a filter densifying operation; (4) a subsequent core excavating or trenching operation upon the arenaceous filter material; (*5) a core backfilling operation; (6) a core densifying operation; (7) at top arenaceous filter backfilling operation to complete the filter surround of the core; and 8) a top filter compacting operation. Ineach of the several operations enumerated, material handling equipment is required to pick up and dispose of excavated spoil, in addition to each of the many specialized mamachines or devices needed to perform the work.

Although the present invention is described and disclosed, for the most part, with independent transport means for moving the device and structure along its intended work path, a greater functional advantage may be realized when the combined components of the present invention are used as an attachment or accessory to other machines such as trimming machines, excavating machines, trenching machines, and the like. However, in order to avoid descriptive redundancy, embodiments of the invention as an attachment or accessory carried on each of the several types and kinds of other machine units are omitted.

The method of the present invention, generally described, operates to form a permeable conduit in an open trench in the foundation for a surface structure, by laying against the bottom wall of the trench a layer of relatively dense interstitial material, laying against the side walls of the trench layers of the same or a similar material, and while maintaining the resultant side wall layers in position against the side Walls of the trench, laying a layer of a relatively coarse interstitial material upon the bottom Wall layer and between the sidewall layers of the denser material. In most instances, it is further desirable to cover the core layer of coarse material with 3 a second horizontally-extending layer of denser material.

The apparatus of the present invention, generally speaking, comprises conduit laying means having a plurality each of material mixing chutes, bottomless compartments, conduit forming means, material laying strike-off shoes and densifying means. The structure here disclosed is juxtapositioned to an intended work area independently of its carrier, wherein the device and structure is moved over a previously excavated line of drainage or trench by its carrier, articulated within its framework perpendicularly to the vertical plane of the trench and lowered from its framework to a pro-selected elevation within the trench. Conduit material are separately moved .to the present machine by any conventional material handling means such as from a 'hopper storage through conveying means to the machine;

Each of the conduit materials from the respective chutes flows into a plurality of associated bottomless compartments, each capable of confining a separate and different material. The sides of each of the compartments vary in depth according to the lowest elevation desired for each of the materials to be laid. The sides of the compartments also conform to the cross sectional configuration of each of the material sections to be laid. Thus, the compartment sides provide conduit forming means. The rear panel of each of the respective chutes is provided with a rearwardly sloping sledge-like material laying strike-off shoe conforming to the configuration of the upper section of the surrounding filter section. In this manner, the uppermost elevation of each of the conduit materials is caused to be laid down and struck ofi.

Densifying means are provided for each of the material compartments. Each densifying unit is so attached to each of the compartments that vibration is set up in the compartment sides which causes the material to flow evenly and to densify about the conduit forming sides of the compartment. Each of the densifying means is provided with a bottom plate causing a perpendicular vibration to be set up on top of the material being laid in the trench, thus penetrating the material itself in the trench. It is an object of this invention to provide a method and apparatus for making permeable conduits for subterranean lines of drainage, in a series of composite operations, to backfill, form and density several porous materials, each of a selected size in previously excavated trenches,

Other objects of the present invention are to provide on an improved machine for making permeable conduits which will achieve optimum economy in doing such work; to provide a machine for laying a drain pipe within the permeable conduit in a continuous operation with the making of the conduit; and to provide a machine which will make a permeable conduit in a configuration conforming to any desired shape.

Various other objects will be manifest from the descriprtion following of the present preferred forms of the invention, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

'FIG. 1 is a top plan view of an embodiment of the present invention showing the conduit laying means mounted in conduit means framework, and carried by a transport means; including, also, a top plan view of a material handling system which may be used in combination with the conduit laying means.

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the structures of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of a portion of the apparatus of the present invention, showing the position of the transport means and the conduit laying means as it may be used for making conduits on a sloping work face.

FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view of a plurality of permeable conduit laying means according to the invention, as they may be mounted as an attachment or accessory to single slope equipment for canals, levees, dams or the like.

FIG. 5 is the fragmentary cross sectional view of a typical square type conduit of the type and kind contemplated to be made with the use of the present invention.

FIG. 5A is a fragmentary cross sectional view of a typical trapezoidal type conduit of the type and kind contemplated to be made with the use of the present invention.

'FIG. 6 is a side elevational view to a larger scale, of the conduit laying means of one embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a top plan view of the device and structure of FIG. 8 is a fragmentary side elevational View of the device and structure of FIG. 6 showing to advantage method and means for laying pipe within the conduit of the type and kind contemplated to be made with the use of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a fragmentary top plan view of the apparatus of FIGS. 1-3, 6 and 7, showing to advantage means by which the conduit laying means of the present invention may be articulated to operate on level or sloped ground.

'FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along line 10-10 of FIG. 9 and showing means by which the conduit laying means may be raised and lowered in a trench and be adjusted to a desired elevation within a trench.

Referring now .to the drawings, and more particularly to FIGURES 1 through 4, the conduit laying means of the present invention, generally designated by the numeral 10, mounted in conduit means framework 11, is shown carried by a transport means generally designated by the numeral 12 in FIGURES 1, 2, and 3. In FIGURE 4 a further embodiment is shown wherein means 10 is attached to a transport framework 13 as an accessory such as to a single slope excavating or trimming machine. It may be noted that transport means 12; and transport framework 13 are similar in character in that each basically comprises a pair of transport vehicles 14 and 14', here illustrated as a pair of independent, self-propelled, endless tracked, vehicles having a framework 15 disposed therebetween. Although it is not necessary that transport vehicles 14 and 14' be independent, self-propelled or even tracked, the advantages of independently juxtaposittioning either of the frameworks 15, and thereby conduit laying means 10, to a workface, by these means may be observed from the drawings.

It has been found in practice that the present invention is limited in its rate of work by the rate at which the several conduit materials are suppled to conduit laying means 10. This may be better understood when consideration is given to the fact that conduits of this type are usually about three feet by three feet, thereby requiring approximately one-third of a cubic yard of the several conduit materials per foot of travel. Some excavating, trenching, trimming and fine grading machines average as much as twelve feet per minute travel. Under these conditions, as much as two thousand cubic yards of the s veral conduit materials need be supplied to each conduit laying means 10 every eight hour work shift. Although any conventional material handling means known in the 1 art is suitable for moving the several conduit materials to conduit laying means 10, a further embodiment of the present invention, including a material handling system capable of handling such extreme quantities of materials, is here disclosed.

The material handling system here disclosed includes a traveling storage means 16, a conveying means generally designated by the numeral 17, and a chute mixing means generally designated 18. The material handling system is intended to move at the same rate of speed as conduit laying means 10.

Traveling storage means 16 comprises a plurality of partitioned hopper receiving means 19 and 19' mounted on a transport carriage such as endless tracks 20 and 20'. Means 16 is mounted on its transport carriage at an angle as shown to advance in FIGURE 2, in order that vehicles commonly used in the construction industry to haul materials may easily discharge respective conduit mate- .5 rials into means 16. It may be observed in FIGURE 1 that hopper receiving means 19 and 19' are provided with a plurality of discharge means such as screw conveyors 21, 21 and 21" at the bottom of hoppers 1-9 and 19. Since the surrounding arenaceous filter material may be separately laid; that is to say, the bottom and the sides of the filter may be laid at one time and the .topportion of the filter at another time, or in any other alternative -U-shaped member, the legs of which extend from the rearmanner as herein later described, hoppers 19 and 19' may be provided with more than one discharge means such as conveyors 2-1 and 21'. It is thus intended that each hopper means is provided with as many discharge means as required for the number of laying means which may use the same conduit material. Similarly, as many hopper receiving means may be provided in traveling storage means 16 as the number of difierenttypes and kinds of conduit materials which may be used. Typical permable conduits in subterranean lines of drainage are shown to advantage in FIGURES and 5A wherein the cohesionless arenaceous filter surround is designated by the numeral 22, the core of the conduit is designated 23, and the surface structure by the numeral 24. It is preferred that the several materials not be mixed or contaminated, and, therefore, separate hopper means such as means 19 and 19 are desirable.

Conveying means 17 comprises a plurality'of material handling means such as screw conveyors 25, 25' and 25". Screw conveyors 25, 25 and 25" carry the several conduit materials to each of a plurality of mixing chute means 26, 26' and 26" which are connected to respective conduit laying means as herein later described.

Mixing chute means 26, 26' and 26" comprise a boxlike chute having a plurality of downwardly sloping baflie plates 27, shown to advantage in FIGURE 4. Plates 27 are alternately opposed in spaced relationship to each other within the several mixing chute means. As the material is discharged into each of the several chutes, it is caused to be alternately diverted in the direction opposite from its former path, against the opposite wall of the chute means, and the material is mixed in its cascading-like fall through the chute.

FIGURES 6 and 7 show to advantage conduit laying means 10. Means comprises a plurality each of respective bottomless box-like material distributing compartments for each of the several conduit materials, such as compartments 28, 28' and 28"; vibratory compacting means for agitating and densifying each of the conduit sections, such as impactors 29, 29' and 29"; and a conduit forming means generally designated by the numeral 30. :FIGURE 6 is illustrative of the manner in which chutes means 26, 26 and 26" may issue into respective conduit laying means compartments 28, 28' and 28". It may be expedient to fit each of the respective chute means and each of the respective compartments with a bolting flange whereby each of the respective components may be bolted together in order to expedite assembly and disassembly of the units.

Each of the several distributing compartments is similar in character and varies only in respect to size and according to the type of materials to be laid by each of them. Thus, it appears that a description of one of the compartments, including, however, statements of modifications which are necessary to lay the several types of conduit materials may suflice for all.

The method of laying the several conduit materials with the form of the invention as illustrated in FIGURES 6 and 7 is such that the conduit laying means -10 is carried at an elevation above the bot-tom of a previously excavated trench which is equal to the thickness of the bottom portion of the filter surround desired as shown to advantage in FIGURES 2 and 3. In this manner, the filter material from chute means 26 may flow through distributing compartment 28, and around the sides and bottom of conduit forming means 30. As shown to advantage in FIGURE 7, conduit forming means 30 is a ward portion of compartment 28 to the end of means 10. The legs of forming means 30 may be perpendicular or at an angle so as to confrom to the configuration desired for a given conduit such as either of the configurations of conduits shown in FIGURES 5 and 5A. A rounded nose portion 31 is provided on conduit forming means 30, in the rear portion of compartment 28, so that the material in compartment 28 may be directed about it. Similarly, as shown to advantage in FIGURE 6, a rounded laying shoe 32 is provided on the front bottom portion of forming means 30 to lay the bottom section of the filter surround as earlier stated. It will be noted that the front wall of compartment 28 is extended to the terminal of shoe 32 and to the bottom of forming means 30 whereby compartment 28' is a separate bottomless compartment.

In this manner, core material flowing from mixing chute means 26' into compartment 28 is laid down on top of the bottom portion of the filter surround, andconfined at the sides of conduit forming means 30. It is desirable to confine 'the core material between the sides of means 30 while it is being densified, as later described, so that it does not become contaminated with the filter material at the sides of the conduit.

Compartment 28" extends across the top of both core 23 and filter 22 sides. Therefore, filter material flowing from mixing chute means 26" into compartment 28" is laid down on top of core 23 and the sides of filter 22 to complete the top portion of filter surround 22.

The trailing rear sides 33, 33 and 33 of respective compartments 28, 28' and .28", shown to advantage in FIGURE 6 provide a rearwardly sloping, sledge-like, material laying, strike-ofl means which are not unlike the sledge-like strike-off float body shown and described in copending application Serial Number 341,694, filed January 31, 1964, for Method and Apparatus for Paving Slopes by the present applicants. The bottom of each of the sledgelike members is a smooth, slightly rearwardly sloping flat panel designated 34, the forward terminal of which extends upwardly at an angle to provide a sloping front wall 35. Wall 35 engages the conduit material in its path and forces the surplus material ahead of it, while panel 34, in a gr-adingdike motion, smooths the material to grade and similarly pushes excess material ahead of it.

In laying down materials, as opposed to pushing, bulldozing or grading materials, it is desirable that the angles of attack of the material laying means and the strike-ofi smoothing means be at some marginal angle less than the angle of natural repose of the material. Thus, walls 35, 35', and 35" and panels 34, 34 and 34" are sloped at an angle near the angle of natural repose of the material intended to be laid by the several means.

In making a conduit in the manner shown to advantage in FIGURES 3 and 4, wherein the top portion of the filter surround conforms to the sloping foundation, Wall 35" and panel 34" may also conform to the configuration of the slope. Densifying means 2 more fully later described, in such event, should be mounted so as to conform to the slope configuration.

Densifying means, such as integral vibratory surface impactors 29, 29-and 29" commonly known in the art, are provided. Impact-or 29 is rigidly mounted on a platform 36 suitably fastened to shoe 32. Since conduit means 10 is an integral rigid structure, conduit forming means 30 and the several compartments are caused to be vibrated by impactor 29. Thus, the several conduit materials are induced to flow freely. At the same time, the densifying force of impactor 29 is directed primarily downwardly through shoe 32 to density the material being laid under shoe 32, and secondarily, through the sides of conduit forming means 30 to density the sides.

Impactors 29' and 29" are typical surface type units commonly known in the art having a pan type base and mounting framework such as shown at 37 and 38 respectively. Integral eccentric type vibratory generators, such 'as shown for impactor 29, are mounted on bases 37 for -noted that bases 37 are each equal in width with the respective compartments with which each of them is associated.

Referring to FIGURE 8 a further embodiment of the present invention is shown. The front wall portion of compartment 28 is provided .with a hooded pipe laying means 40. Sections of pipe such as shown at 41 and which may be porous in nature, may be inserted through an aperture 4 2 provided in the front wall portion of compartment 28', and over a roller 43. As conduit laying means 10 advances, conduit core materials in compartment 28' flow around successive sections of pipe 41 .and a pipe may thus be laid within a section 23 as shown to advantage in FIGURES 5 and 5A. It may be desirable to lengthen the closure made by conduit forming means 30, shoe 32 and the front wall portion of compartment 28 to provide a larger work space for one placing pipe as aforesaid.

FIGURE 9 shows to advantage the means by which conduit laying means 10 may be vertically positioned in a trench. Since both the front and rear positioning means are identical, a description of one shall sufiice for both means.

Conduit laying means framework 11 is provided with a fixed shaft 44 rigidly mounted on the centerline of a front and rear framework plate member 45. Fixed shaft 44 is received into a bearing 46 suitably fastened to positioning plate members 47 on transport framework 15, as is shown to advantage in FIGURES 2 and 3. Plate members 45 and plate members 47 are provided with a series of holes drilled about a turning circle. When conduit laying means 10 and conduit framework 11 are articulated to a desired position, a pair of carrier pins 48 is provided to be inserted into respective holes in plate members 45 and plate members 47 to hold means 10 and framework 11 in place. If it is desired to articulate means 10 and framework 11 the pins 48 are removed.

Raising and lowering means for conduit laying means 10, such as that shown to advantage in FIGURE 10, may be used to position laying means 10 in a previously excavated trench. As illustrative of such means, raising and lowering means shown inFIGURE 10 comprises a rack 49 securely fastened to conduit laying means 10, and a reversible ratchet type jacking means 50. Racks 49 are also shown to advantage in FIGURES 6 and 7. A lever arm 51 attached to means 50 is operated in a pumping-like manner, engaging means 52 causes conduit laying means 10 to be raised or lowered as engaging means 52 rotates in rack 49. A locking means 53 is provided to hold or secure engaging means 52 after it has been rotated.

What is claimed:

1. The method of forming a permeable conduit in an open trench in the foundation for a surface structure,

which conduit comprises a core of relatively coarse interstitial material, such as gravel, separated from the trench walls by layers of denser interstitial filter material, such as 8 sand, which comprises the cyclical repetition of the following steps:

laying against the bottom wall of the trench and continuously across that entire wall a bottom filter layer of relatively dense interstitial particulate material, such as sand,

densifying and forming a central core portion of said bottom layer of substantially uniform vertical thickness,

laying against the respective side walls of the trench, in

such fashion as to be continuous with said bottom layer, spaced filter layers of the same relatively dense interstitial particulate material,

while maintaining the resultant side wall layers of relatively dense material in position against the side walls of the trench, laying a core layer of coarser interstitial particulate material than said relatively dense material, such as gravel, directly upon the central core portion of said bottom wall layer and between said side wall layers, finally to provide support of the side wall layers by direct contact with said side wall layers,

and densifying the core and side wall layers,

the steps of laying, densifying and forming the bottom wall layer preceding the steps of laying the side wall and core layers.

2. The method of claim 1 including the step of covering the upper surface of said core layer and said side wall layers with a layer of the same relatively dense interstitial particulate material.

3. The method of claim 2 including the step of densifying the layer formed by said covering step.

4. The method of claim 3 in which each densifying step is performed by repetitive applications of pressure against the respective layer.v

5. The method of claim 1 in which said relatively dense material is first deposited across the width of the trench to a height substantially above the desired top level of said core portion and the portion of such deposit above the core portion is then diverted toward the side walls to form said side wall layers, said central core portion being of the width of said core layer.

6. The method of claim 5 in which said relatively dense material is arenaceous and said coarser material is gravel.

7. The method of claim 6 in which said relatively dense material and said coarser material are each separately intermixed immediately prior to laying to provide a substantially uniform mix of each material.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,523,027 11/19 Davis 61-10 1,463,561 7/23 Sommer 6172.l 2,035,627 3/36 West 94-46 .2,539,063 1/51 Ekenstam 61-63 2,551,110 5/51 Fuller 6163 .2,738,745 3/56 Harpold 61-72.1

FOREIGN PATENTS 862,616 1/53 Germany.

OTHER REFERENCES Architectural Record; pages 154-159; July 1951.

CHARLES E. OCONNELL, Primary Examiner. EARL J. \VITMER, Examiner. 

1. THE METHOD OF FORMING A PERMEABLE CONDUIT IN AN OPEN TRENCH IN THE FOUNDATION FOR A SURFACE STRUCTURE, WHICH CONDUIT COMPRISES A CORE OF RELATIVELY COARSE INTERSTITIAL MATERIAL, SUCH AS GRAVEL, SEPARATE FROM THE TRENCH WALLS BY LAYERS OF DENSER INTERSTITIAL FILTER MATERIAL, SUCH AS SAND, WHICH COMPRISES THE CYLINDRICAL REPETITION OF THE FOLLOWING STEPS: LAYING AGAINST THE BOTTOM WALL OF THE TRENCH AND CONTINUOUSLY ACROSS THAT ENTIRE WALL A BOTTOM FILTER LAYER OF RELATIVELY DENSE INTERSTITIAL PARTICULATE MATERIAL, SUCH AS SAND, DENSIFYING AND FORMING A CENTRAL CORE PORTION OF SAID BOTTOM LAYER OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM VERTICAL THICKNESS, LAYING AGAINST THE RESPECTIVE SIDE WALLS OF THE TRENCH, IN SUCH FASHION AS TO BE CONTINUOUS WITH SAID BOTTOM LAYER, SPACED FILTER LAYERS OF THE SAME RELATIVELY DENSE INTERSTITIAL PARTICULATE METERIAL, WHILE MAINTAINING THE RESULTANT SIDE WALL LAYERS OF RELATIVELY DENSE MATERIAL IN POSITION AGAINST THE SIDE WALLS OF THE TRENCH, LAYING A CORE LAYER OF COARSE INTERSTITIAL PARTICULATE MATERIAL THAN SAID RELATIVELY DENSE MATERIAL, SUCH AS GRAVEL, DIRECTLY UPON THE CENTRAL CORE PORTION OF SAID BOTTOM WALL LAYER AND BETWEEN SAID SIDE WALL LAYERS, FINALLY TO PROVIDE SUPPORT OF THE SIDE WALL LAYERS BY DIRECT CONTACT WITH SAID SIDE WALL LAYERS, AND DENSIFYING THE CORE AND SIDE WALL LAYERS, THE STEPS OF LAYING, DENSIFYING AND FORMING THE BOTTOM WALL LAYER PRECEDING THE STEPS OF LAYING THE SIDE WALL AND CORE LAYERS. 